Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [vb pp] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 2 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 3 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 4 | Primitive art may have confirmed them in their desire to achieve a greater directness of expression , but they remained interested in it from a visual point of view . |
| 5 | They may cost you a couple of hundred quid , but they look as if your grandmother may have knitted them from one of her own patterns . |
| 6 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 7 | She also felt a commitment to those artists whose blatant and subjective rather than allegorical treatment of the subject matter may have excluded them from showing elsewhere . |
| 8 | For example , Harvard Securities may have reminded them of Harvard Business School , although no claims of any connection were made . |
| 9 | Strictly they were attached to the governor 's staff as equerries or grooms , but as with singulares their duties may have taken them outside his immediate entourage . |
| 10 | A number are not known to be from previous material , and Wulfstan may have taken them from records of Cnut 's administration . |